Button pencil or pen holder.



E- D- C'ONKLIN. BUTTON PENCIL 0R PEN HOLDER.

' APPLICATION F-ILED NOL 6, 1915. 1,188,486, Patentefi May16,1916

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fl T TOR/V536 E. D CONKLIN.

BUTTON PENQIL OR PEN HOLDER.

APPLICAHON FILED NOV, 6, I915.

Patented May 16, 1916.

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IN VE/VTWF? EDWARD D." CONKLIN, 0E ZMADISON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR F0 THE WHITE-HEAD &

."HOAG COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPGRATIQN OF NEW JERSESL BUTTON PENCIL OR PEN HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 6, 1915. Serial No. 60.159.

T all whom it may concern:

Be' it known that I, EDWARD D. CONKLIN, a citizen of the United States. and resident of Madison, in the county of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button Pencil or Pen Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in button pencil or pen holders.

The primary object of the invention is to provide an eflicient, simple and economically manufactured pencil or pen holder embodying a button adapted to display insignia, advertising, and like matter.

Other objects will appear from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross section of the device showing a portion of a gar- 1nent:positioned between a; portion of the device and a pencil indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a central lateral section of the de vice. Fig. 4 is a viewlpf the portion oicthe blank from which thehollow ball at the end of the spring arm 1s formed. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of holder. Fig. 6 is a cross section on line (i6, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a cross section similar to Fig. (i, of another modified form of holder. Fig. 8 is a cross section similar to Fig. 6, of a still further modified form. of holder.

The invention comprises a thin elongated sheet metal member comprising a base -1- and a spring tongue 2 the base having resilient pencil clasping jaws -3- formed lli fit by bending side portions thereof in arc-uate form. The spring tongue -2 is formed slightly concave longitudinally and terminotes in a holding ball -4.-- formed by bending into substantial contact the projecting portions 5 at the end of the blank from. which. the spring tongue is formed.

The body 'l is provided with a longitudinal slot -6 through which lugs -7, struck up from a flanged disk -8, extend and these lugs are bent into contact with the adjacent depressed portions -Z" of the body l. to firmly secure the body --1- to the flanged disk 8-. The portions 7- are, iii-this instance, depressed adietance substantially equal to the thickness of the metal forming disk 8-, so that in the assembled structure the surfaces of lugs T- lie in planes coincident with the interior surface of member -1- to form a smooth, unobstructed, interior passage for the pencil or pen, The disk -8- is provided with a flaring flange within which is seated a disk or pad -'10- of suitable material such as cardboard.

A second sheet metal disk 11 is provided and has a covering ---1.2 of suitable material, such as celluloid, for carrying or displaying insignia, advertising, or other matter. This disk '11- is provided with a circumferential flange 3- adapted to telescope with and outside of the flaring flange 9 upon disk 8 and to be bent into frictional engagement therewith to firnily interlock the parts, and preferably the covering -12 of celluloid is of somewvhat greater extent than the disk 11 and has its marginal portion extending around the flange -12 so as to lie between the flanges -9 and l3- in assembled condition of the structure.

The spring tongue -2 preferably comprises an oflset portion 1 l of substantially the same lateral extent as the amount oi projection of the ball l-- laterally of the spring tongue 2, so that the surface oi the ball will normally lie in substantial contact with a pencilengaged between the jaws 3- and may be sprung outwardly to allow the insertion of a portionof a garment, as 15-, between the pencil and the ball. M

In Figs. 5 and t reversal of the structure of the former figures is disclosed in that the lugs 7 are formed by pressing out a portion of the base 1--, and the disk -8 is provided with a pair of spaced openings -16 through which the lugs 7- are passed and then pressed into contact with the inner face of the disk 8.

In Fig. 7, the base l and disk --8 are provided with registering openings -l7- and 18- through. which an eyelet 19 is passed, the opposite edge portions of the eyelet riveted into contact with the inner face oi. the disk 8-- and the outer face of the base 1, respectively. Preferably the disk 8- is provided with a depressed portion 20-- adapted to receive a projecting portion 21 formed upon the base 1- for preventing any relative Patented May is, mic.

rotary movement of the parts about the connecting eyelet 19, and preferably I provide asheet metal plate 22-- of proper conformation to fit against the inner face ,of the disk 8 and across the eyelet 19.

In Fig. 8, the eyelet is formed by pressing out a portion of the disk -8 the eyelet -19 extending through an opening 23-- I in the base 1 and riveted or clenched into contact with the outer side of said base to firmly connect the parts v In each of the. constructions the disk 8- as an advertising button is permanently and rigidly secured to the base -1 of a pen or pencil holder having the curved clasping jaws 3-, the spring arm -2 offset from the plane of the base 1- and provided with'a formed head 4v-', the offset of said 1 spring arm tending to compensate for the lateral extension of said head to allow the efficient securement of the holder to a garmentor like article.

Although I have shown and described one particular form and construction of device and certain variations and modifications thereof, I do not desire to limit myself tothe same, as changes may be made in the details of both form and construction without departing from the spirit of this invention as set forth in the appended claims.

What I claim is I V 1. In a device of the class described, a

' disk and. a base, one of said members provided with a pair of openings, the other provided with spaced integral flanges-passed respectively through said openings and clenched into contact with the inner face of said disk, apair of coacting curved jaws on said base, and aspring arm extending from the base and terminating in a gripping head.

3. In a button pencil holder, a spring arm terminating in a plurality of flanges, said flanges bent into contact upon one side of said arm to form a substantially closed hol low head.

4. In a button pencil holder, a spring arm terminating in three flanges, two of said flanges projecting from opposite sides ofthe arm and the third flange projecting from the end of the arm, said flanges bent into contact to form a substantially closed'hollow ball projecting from one side of the arm. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of October, 1915.

' EDWARD D, CONKLIN.

Witnesses:

WM. A. JoNEs," HERBERT R. PIER. 

